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Variation principle and the universal metric of dynamic routing
In this paper the variation principles from theoretical physics is considered
that would describe the process of routing in computer networks. The total
traffic which is currently served on all hops of the route has been chosen as
the quantity to minimize. Universal metric function has been found for dynamic
routing taking into account the packet loss effect. An attempt to derive the
metric of the most popular dynamic routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP
from universal metric was made.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 14 equation
Modelling the IEEE 802.11 wireless MAC layer under heterogeneous VoIP traffic to evaluate and dimension QoE
PhDAs computers become more popular in the home and workplace, sharing resources and
Internet access locally is a necessity. The simplest method of choice is by deploying a
Wireless Local Area Network; they are inexpensive, easy to configure and require
minimal infrastructure. The wireless local area network of choice is the IEEE 802.11
standard; IEEE 802.11, however, is now being implemented on larger scales outside of
the original scope of usage. The realistic usage spans from small scale home solutions to
commercial âhot spots,â providing access within medium size areas such as cafĂ©s, and
more recently blanket coverage in metropolitan. Due to increasing Internet availability
and faster network access, in both wireless and wired, the concept of using such
networks for real-time services such as internet telephony is also becoming popular.
IEEE 802.11 wireless access is shared with many clients on a single channel and there are
three non-overlapping channels available. As more stations communicate on a single
channel there is increased contention resulting in longer delays due to the backoff
overhead of the IEEE 802.11 protocol and hence loss and delay variation; not desirable
for time critical traffic.
Simulation of such networks demands super-computing resource, particularly where
there are over a dozen clients on a given. Fortunately, the author has access to the UKâs
super computers and therefore a clear motivation to develop a state of the art analytical
model with the required resources to validate. The goal was to develop an analytical
model to deal with realistic IEEE 802.11 deployments and derive results without the
need for super computers.
A network analytical model is derived to model the characteristics of the IEEE 802.11
protocol from a given scenario, including the number of clients and the traffic load of
each. The model is augmented from an existing published saturated case, where each
client is assumed to always have traffic to transmit. The nature of the analytical model is
to allow stations to have a variable load, which is achieved by modifying the existing
models and then to allow stations to operate with different traffic profiles. The different
traffic profiles, for each station, is achieved by using the augmented model state machine
per station and distributing the probabilities to each stationâs state machine accordingly.
To address the gap between the analytical models medium access delay and standard
network metrics which include the effects of buffering traffic, a queueing model is
identified and augmented which transforms the medium access delay into standard
network metrics; delay, loss and jitter. A Quality of Experience framework, for both
computational and analytical results, is investigated to allow the results to be represented
as user perception scores and the acceptable voice call carrying capacity found. To find
the acceptable call carrying capacity, the ITU-T G.107 E-Model is employed which can
be used to give each client a perception rating in terms of user satisfaction.
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With the use of a novel framework, benchmarking results show that there is potential to
maximise the number of calls carried by the network with an acceptable user perception
rating. Dimensioning of the network is undertaken, again compared with simulation
from the super computers, to highlight the usefulness of the analytical model and
framework and provides recommendations for network configurations, particularly for
the latest Wireless Multimedia extensions available in IEEE 802.11.
Dimensioning shows an overall increase of acceptable capacity of 43%; from 7 to 10 bidirectional
calls per Access Point by using a tuned transmission opportunity to allow
each station to send 4 packets per transmission. It is found that, although the accuracy
of the results from the analytical model is not precise, the model achieves a 1 in 13,000
speed up compared to simulation. Results show that the point of maximum calls comes
close to simulation with the analytical model and framework and can be used as a guide
to configure the network. Alternatively, for specific capacity figures, the model can be
used to home-in on the optimal region for further experiments and therefore achievable
with standard computational resource, i.e. desktop machines
Monitoring multicast traffic in heterogeneous networks
Estågio realizado no INESC - Porto e orientado pelo Prof. Doutor Ricardo MorlaTese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores - Major TelecomunicaçÔes. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200
QoS in LEO satellite networks with multipacket reception
Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia ElectrotĂ©cnica e de Computadores, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiĂȘncias e TecnologiaLow Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks can improve terrestrial wireless networks to
allow global broadband services for Mobile Terminals (MT), regardless of the users' location.
In this context, hybrid telecommunication systems combining satellites with Long
Term Evolution (LTE) networks, like the LightSquared technology, are intended to provide
ubiquitous high-speed services.
This dissertation analyses the performance of a random access protocol that uses Hybrid
Network-assisted Diversity Multiple Access (H-NDMA), for a LEO satellite system
network, named by Satellite Random NDMA (SR-NDMA). The protocol also considers
a Single Carrier-Frequency Domain Equalization (SC-FDE) scheme for the uplink transmission
and a Multipacket Reception (MPR) receiver. In this scenario, the transmission
of data packets between MTs and the Base Station (BS) is made through random access
and schedule access slots, organized into super-frames with the duration of a Round Trip
Time (RTT).
A SR-NDMA simulator is implemented to measure the system performance in matters
of throughput, energy consumption, system delay and also the protocol capacity to
meet Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. A set of simulations tests were made with a
random Poisson process tra c generation to validate the analytical model. The capacity
to ful l the QoS requirements of a real-time tra c class was also tested.FCT/MEC: MPSat - PTDC/EEA-TEL/099074/2008,
OPPORTUNISTIC CR - PTDC/EEA-TEL/115981/2009, Femtocells - PTDC/EEA-TEL/120666/2010
e ADIN - PTDC/EEI-TEL/2990/201
A traffic engineering system for DiffServ/MPLS networks
This thesis presents an approach to traffic engineering that uses DiffServ and MPLS technologies to provide QoS guarantees over an IP network. The specific problem described here is how best to route traffic within the network such that the demands can be carried with the requisite QoS while balancing the load on the network. A traffic engineering algorithm that determines QoS guaranteed label-switched paths (LSPs) between specified ingress-egress pairs is proposed and a system that uses such an algorithm is outlined. The algorithm generates a solution for the QoS routing problem of finding a path with a number of constraints (delay, jitter, loss) while trying to make best of resource utilisation. The key component of the system is a central resource manager responsible for monitoring and managing resources within the network and making all decisions to route traffic according to QoS requirements. The algorithm for determining QoS-constrained routes is based on the notion of effective bandwidth and cost functions for load balancing. The network simulation of the proposed system is presented here and simulation results are discussed
Delay analysis of mixed fronthaul and backhaul traffic under strict priority queueing discipline in a 5G packet transport network
Virtualization of the base station for the purpose of centralization is being actively studied and researched as an implementation option for 5G mobile networks. Proposed as Cloud radio access network, the technology is expected to facilitate easier operation and maintenance than regular radio access networks. However, the base stations traffic has stringent delay requirements. In this paper, we explore the possibility of multiplexing fronthaul traffic and traditional backhaul traffic as it traverses over the metropolitan network while keeping the average fronthaul queueing delay and jitter under control. We analyze and simulate the cases of a single fronthaul flow and multiple fronthaul flows arriving at the packet switch assuming strict priority for the fronthaul queue. We propose a fronthaul frame aggregation strategy to improve the packet transmission efficiency while keeping the average fronthaul queueing delay and jitter constant regardless of the percentage of fronthaul traffic. While the criteria for aggregation is different for the 2 cases, we show that the optimal number of basic frames to aggregate is between 3-10 frames assuming the Common Public Radio Interface protocol.The authors would like to acknowledge the support of projects TIGRE5-CM (grant no. S2013/ICE-2919) and H2020 EU-funded 5G-Crosshaul Project (grant no. 671598) to the development of this work
Performance enhancement of large scale networks with heterogeneous traffic.
Finally, these findings are applied towards improving the performance of the Differentiated Services architecture by developing a new Refined Assured Forwarding framework where heterogeneous traffic flows share the same aggregate class. The new framework requires minimal modification to the existing Diffserv routers. The efficiency of the new architecture in enhancing the performance of Diffserv is demonstrated by simulation results under different traffic scenarios.This dissertation builds on the notion that segregating traffic with disparate characteristics into separate channels generally results in a better performance. Through a quantitative analysis, it precisely defines the number of classes and the allocation of traffic into these classes that will lead to optimal performance from a latency standpoint. Additionally, it weakens the most generally used assumption of exponential or geometric distribution of traffic service time in the integration versus segregation studies to date by including self-similarity in network traffic.The dissertation also develops a pricing model based on resource usage in a system with segregated channels. Based on analytical results, this dissertation proposes a scheme whereby a service provider can develop compensatory and fair prices for customers with varying QoS requirements under a wide variety of ambient traffic scenarios.This dissertation provides novel techniques for improving the Quality of Service by enhancing the performance of queue management in large scale packet switched networks with a high volume of traffic. Networks combine traffic from multiple sources which have disparate characteristics. Multiplexing such heterogeneous traffic usually results in adverse effects on the overall performance of the network
RouteNet-Fermi: Network Modeling with Graph Neural Networks
Network models are an essential block of modern networks. For example, they
are widely used in network planning and optimization. However, as networks
increase in scale and complexity, some models present limitations, such as the
assumption of Markovian traffic in queuing theory models, or the high
computational cost of network simulators. Recent advances in machine learning,
such as Graph Neural Networks (GNN), are enabling a new generation of network
models that are data-driven and can learn complex non-linear behaviors. In this
paper, we present RouteNet-Fermi, a custom GNN model that shares the same goals
as Queuing Theory, while being considerably more accurate in the presence of
realistic traffic models. The proposed model predicts accurately the delay,
jitter, and packet loss of a network. We have tested RouteNet-Fermi in networks
of increasing size (up to 300 nodes), including samples with mixed traffic
profiles -- e.g., with complex non-Markovian models -- and arbitrary routing
and queue scheduling configurations. Our experimental results show that
RouteNet-Fermi achieves similar accuracy as computationally-expensive
packet-level simulators and scales accurately to larger networks. Our model
produces delay estimates with a mean relative error of 6.24% when applied to a
test dataset of 1,000 samples, including network topologies one order of
magnitude larger than those seen during training. Finally, we have also
evaluated RouteNet-Fermi with measurements from a physical testbed and packet
traces from a real-life network.Comment: This paper has been accepted for publication at IEEE/ACM Transactions
on Networking 2023 (DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2023.3269983). \copyright 2023 IEEE.
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